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Kinderplex crisis reveals Google founder's fumbling and fibbing [Sergey Brin]

valleywag.com » 2008 » July » 5th » Kinderplex crisis reveals Google founder's fumbling and fibbing [Sergey Brin]

Tagged: google, top, childcare, daycare, sergey brin, hubris, susan wojcicki, kinderplex

Joe Nocera of the New York Times has taken note of Google's childcare crisis. A brief recap: After taking its childcare programs in-house, at the behest of Google executive Susan Wojcicki, the sister-in-law of founder Sergey Brin, Google hiked its rates 70 percent. Parents were infuriated not just at the price hike but, accustomed to Google's culture of analysis-driven consensus, at the … Continue Reading »

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